 The town's Saint Trdat Church was opened in August 2000 by Catholicos Karekin II and through the donations of Armenian benefactors "Caloust and Emma Soghoyan" from the United States.The church is named after king Tiridates III of Armenia who proclaimed Christianity as the state religion of Armenia in 301, making the Armenian kingdom the first nation to embrace Christianity as an official state religion.Here is the population timeline of Vayk since 1897